POLL: Dumbest thing you've ever done in BG1-2?

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Uhm, there is one illithid that keeps respawning for a long while...
All the way to the right...
You probably didn't have to do it again...

 

Dumbest thing I ever did was let my friend borrow it who summarily lost it!

 

Dumbest thing that I did happened while adventuring near the temple of the forgotten god in the unseeing eye quest. The PC being in front always stepped on the Flesh to Stone trap. I don't know what was wrong with me that night but I started cussing after reload and reload trying to figure out why each time I got there, I kept turning to stone. I forgot to use Yoshimo to scout and didn't notice the trap sound and whatnots.
And it was my third time through!

 

The dumbest thing i have done in bg2 is.. uinstall it.. ever tried that before ? It was so.. annoying that i had to install it again.. (Did i say i only have a 13 GB HDD ?)
and.. when i attacked kangaxx with Me (Fighter, lvl 8), Minsc and jaheria.. guess who won ?..

 

Accidentally deleting a saved-game i needed desperately.....

 

Installing doesn't take that much time in my case. I made image files of all the CD's, so a recommended installation is happened in a flash, also because I have these image files I can run the game without inserting a CD-ROM, the only problem is that ToB has some copy protection, not allowing it to be copied by vcd. The reason I did this is because I tend to re-install windows every now and then, this really saves me a lot of time

 

In BG1, I pickpocketed the commander of the Flaming Fist (whose name escapes me) for his artifact book that you need to get into candlekeep. Then, after completing half of the quests in the city of Baldur's Gate, I realized that I had lost it and wouldn't be able to get into candlekeep. I had to reload and repeat about ten hours of gameplay.

 

The first time I finally got all the way through the game to Irenicus in Hell, it was late, I was tired, so I figured I'd just fight him the next day -- then I'd have beaten the game! Yipee for me! But the next morning, Saturday, my son was up before me and played his own saved game -- where he's in the second chapter -- and when I went to finish up, MY ENTIRE GAME WAS WIPED. Gone. Though I had saved many times over the *weeks* it took me to get that far, only my second chapter save remained.

 

Hmmmm... Charming the six dopplegangers/noblemen in the duchal palace, and attacking Sarevok with them...

bzzzzzzztt-crash

 

hmm dumbest thing i have ever done in BG1-2.. Aerie!

 

By far the dumbest(from BG1):
I killed Marek during the Lothander quest before talking to him. No save. 400+ hours(real time)gameplay down the toilet.

 

i bought the game.....by far the dumbest of the lot.

 

First of all I want to say I think Nivek the Mad has the funniest post in this thread...sorry dude, but you have to admit it *is* amusing!
I think my dumbest thing to date (not finished it yet!) was my earth shattering fight with Kangaxx. Fought him, beat him into his Demi-Lich form, when he proceeded to imprison the party and we didn't lay a finger on him. Okay, so reload the quicksave, try again, exactly the same thing. Not dissuaded that my tactics would work, after all I am six plus summoned creatures and he's just a floating skull. I must have tried about 10 times before conceding the possibility that *maybe* it wouldn't work that way!! Bought a scroll for "Spell Immunity", cast protection from abjuration, hid everyone else but my quarterstaff weilding mage in the corner, and took the skull out in 20 seconds without a scratch. I felt pretty dumb!
Oh and after just getting to the Underdark, got the timestop scroll and thought I'd use it in a fight with those mushrom things...so I do, proceed to cast two fingers of death, and when time reverts I'd killed two of my own party!! Well it was a crowded litle area, and everything looks so alike when it's greyed out for time stop, all crowded like that! Yeah, I'll keep telling myself that. Beat that Mr. Nivek!

[This message has been edited by kingsgambit (edited November 23, 2001).]

 

How about q as autosave and w as autoload.
I can remember loading instead of saving after difficult fights,
and remember saving instead of loading after pickpockets went wrong.
I played through the entire BGI with those binds

 

Spent fifteen minutes throwing everything I had at that "hate monster" inside the old underground temple. Should have probably figured something was up after five minutes. I was like, "man, this thing's pretty tough!". After talking to the small child it all made sense.

Oh! another thing comes to mind.... I decided to have jaheira shapeshift to a bear and cast her out of my party when she was cursed because she was running out of time. I figure she had about two days left or so. The bear form bolstered her stats to the point where she could conceivably survive another week or so. In addition, I decided to test the theory that if you cast a party member who is cursed out of the party, they won't just die on the street. Well, she just died on the street, in bear form (although her corpse was human). What's worse, I couldn't resurrect her even when i found her hair, and so she remained on the streets of Athkala till the end of the game as a constant reminder of my idiocy.

 

A new one for me: Attacking mean Demi-Lich without having any freedom scrolls. Lost Jaheira in the battle, and with my no-reload-when-bad-things-happen policy, I saved the game... And couldn't find a single scroll in the entire game! Foolish me had Haer'dalis of all people memorise it, and not Jan!